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Your lies flow like water into me,
they seep through the cracks of my self-esteem
and damage the fragile foundation on which I am built.

Your approval is poison,
Intoxicating electricity.
Not unlike the air I breathe,
I crave it, purely for survival.

Your voice is the earth on which I stand.
When you quake, I quake.
Shaking loose the already damaged walls
and leaving my life
falling to pieces

Your touch burns me from the inside out.
It hurts and I need it
And I hate it.

You dance through the ruins of my decrepit home
And leave me to lie in the rubble.

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I really like the metaphor. Water invades porous material and eventually erodes away from the inside. I’m sorry if this is based on your own personal experience. You’ve gained quite a bit of self awareness concerning it if so. Nice work.

I have one suggestion

Your voice is the earth on which I stand.
When you quake, I quake.
Shaking loose the already damaged walls
and leaving my life
to fall to pieces

Maybe

Your voice is the earth on which I stand.
When you quake, I quake.
Shaking loose the already damaged walls
Leaving my life to fall to pieces

I kept wanting to change the verb tense to make them the same

Your voice is the earth on which I stand.
When you quake, I quake.
Shake loose the already damaged walls
and leave my life
to fall to pieces

Or

Your voice is the earth on which I stand.
When you quake, I quake.
Shaking loose the already damaged walls
leaving my life
falling to pieces

Honestly it’s fine as you have it those are just some things I played around with. Obviously, take my suggestions lightly.

This is fine work,
Tim

Thank you for the new suggestions!! I appreciate the feedback you've provided! I love the constructive criticism as I'm here to both share and improve my work. Thank you so much!

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I can't decide between these lines, which are my favorites!

Your touch burns me from the inside out.
It hurts and I need it
And I hate it.

You dance through the ruins of my decrepit home
And leave me to lie in the rubble.

Excellent! ~ Geezer.
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I am blown away! I have felt every single one of these things and your poem put each emotion into a different perspective. Great job. My favorite lines:

Your approval is poison,
Intoxicating electricity.
Not unlike the air I breathe,
I crave it, purely for survival.

~RoseBlack~

Thank you very much! I am glad you like it! :)

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I liked your poetic expression. Poetically you're very sound .
Exquisite!
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"By virtue of creativity, my literary genre is poetry".

~Jackweb

Thank you so much!! :)

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your choice of form. is this how the poem came to you, or did you group the thoughts as seen above?

Very sad piece, and it reaches into the reader.

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for your feedback! I wrote this poem as it came to me.

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On your win. This was a good write. It deserves the attention.

Nice job,
Tim

Thank you so much!! :)

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on your win! Good job!
~ Geezer.
.,

There is value to commenting and critique, tell us how you feel about our work.
This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.

Thank you so much!! :)

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To have selected your wonderful poem
Let poetry flow as it comes
we all are at times placed as judge

Difficult task
Congrats poetess

Thank you so very much!

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I mean like...wow! I am so totally blown away by this poem. It is a genuinely deep, powerful and emotionally revealing piece that is full of sad, painful truths.

Like this verse is particularly striking.

"Your approval is poison,
Intoxicating electricity.
Not unlike the air I breathe,
I crave it, purely for survival."

Knowing that the thing you need to keep you alive, is also the thing that wrecks you. Just this and so many other amazing lines. It was a true classic, and one which I truly did enjoy.

Thanks for sharing this.

I loved it.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

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I really did. And it was absolutely my pleasure.

Take care.

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